Land of Sky and Spires

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windforge:

crystalhide:

empiateo’s lore is largely based around ‘taurs and, in my humble opinion, there could always be more

okay but these edits are??? fucking amazing????

do you take commissions for this 

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renepolumorfousfr:

renepolumorfousfr:

New base on my Mini Shop!

New breeds added!

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dndcharacterideas:

pagerunner-j:

shitfacedanon:

renniequeer:

• A monk based on a European Christian archetype. They have sworn a sacred oath to defeat the giant snail plaguing the countryside.
• A dragonborn desperately trying to convince the party that they’re really an aarakocra with a skin condition that made their feathers fall out.
• Your standard horny bard, but they play a washboard. 
• A sentient hat piloting a mannequin.
• A dark elf who’s afraid of the dark, and terrified of spiders.
• A peasant farmer who joined the adventure because they’re going through a midlife crisis and want to ~find themself.~
• A druid who got involved because they’re the party’s weed dealer.
• A werewolf who doesn’t believe in the moon.

op change the title to “Great”

OP are you kidding

THESE ARE AMAZING

I’ve absolutely played a game with a pot druid and it was funny as hell.

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sixpenceee:

Necro Maria, a breathtaking, exquisite marble sculpture representing a classy decadent macabre reinterpretation of Our Lady of Sorrows, a collaboration between 3D illustrator & art director Billelis & Sick Mick (@sick666mick). Via The Ethereal & the Uncanny

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normal-horoscopes:

Aries: A harbinger of death and ill tidings, a specter of ill fortune across almost every culture on earth. Very pettable.

Taurus: Something long lived. So long lived that its scales have layers like the earths crust. Long forgotten weather systems trapped beneath its hide.

Gemini: One of many, or many of one, or a single part of a larger but singular whole. The roots go deep.

Cancer: Four black wings like a storm, talons remarkably like whaling hooks and a face of flawless white porcelain. 

Leo: An artificial guardian that completed its job too well. It fears fire.

Virgo: A collector of the blind and lost. Those who could see its face would never trust it.

Libra: What used to be worshiped as a god of the hunt, now trapped in a tangle of roots and cabled under a post-soviet radio tower.

Scorpio: Something that can speak several things at once. Its voice is maddening but it desires companionship.

Ophiuchus: Something that seems to think it is a doctor of some sort.

Sagittarius: Bits of feeling and memory from a thousand thousand wearers simply expanding to fill the space.

Capricorn: Something that learned its purpose and then proceeded to hunt and kill the person responsible. 

Aquarius: A memory of something. As it moves it leaves an afterimage.

Pisces: Something that was never supposed to happen, an accidental production of a horrible process. Beauty from nothing. 

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cameoappearance:

thessalian:

corrugatorsupersilly:

liesonthefloordramatically:

Hot take: people who argue that saying “mood,” “same,” “F,” “oh worm?” etc. add nothing to a conversation don’t realize that they function the same way as aizuchi, i.e. signalling that you’re still paying attention to what the speaker is saying, which is harder to do when you can’t see the other person.  In this essay, I will

No go on, I’m listening

Hell, they don’t, I will. In this essay I will discuss how the textual and meme-based forms of aizuchi are not only a sign of our changing methods of communication with the advent of technology, but a particular advantage to those who have problems deriving shades of meaning from vocal tone or facial expression, and arguments made against textual and meme-based forms of aizuchi are speaking from a platform of ableism.

Technology has made a lot of changes in the way we communicate. When it’s face-to-face, we can get away with nods, that little ‘yeah, good point’ purse of the lips, raised eyebrows, that face-scrunch that just says ‘doubt’ … facial expressions, in short; really complex ones, often with an aural component. We read more from those than we realise, but at their base level, they show that we’re not only hearing the noises and nodding in the right places, but listening.

Enter the telephone. Suddenly a speaker can’t see where their conversational companion’s eyes are pointing, what they’re doing with their hands, what their posture’s like, or even if there’s someone on the other end of this bit of plastic they’re talking into. I imagine that aural aizuchi became common to the point of being considered a conversational necessity with the telephone, because when telecommunications technology was in its infancy, back in the days of party lines, it was shaky and unreliable (think Comcast) and there was every chance that your call could be disconnected without realising it. So interjecting with aural cues helped when it came to building trust in the communications medium that was the telephone.

When the internet turned up, it took away even the aural component, and the problem that arose with the telephone repeated itself on a grander scale. Not only could someone not necessarily be sure that someone was paying attention (yes, they might be online, but are they looking at the chat box or did they alt-tab out?), but any exchange was stripped of emotional content. The conversational cue words used to denote attention being paid can come across as sarcastic, dismissive or overly abrupt when stripped down to words on a screen, without the nuance lent to it by vocal tone and facial expression.

The solution? Create a whole new dialect, combining pictures and text to capitalise on a shared cultural foundation. If you’ve ever seen the ST:TNG episode “Darmok”, it’s a bit like that. There are a lot of different cultural cue points (thus “There’s a horse loose in a hospital!” instead of “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra”), and we abbreviate a lot, but in principle, it’s the same. We communicate in metaphor, allowing our shared cultural background carry the emotional nuance that’s lacking in text alone.

What seldom gets brought up is how this has helped those who have issues parsing facial expressions. For some people, parsing all but the most basic facial expressions is a hit-and-miss exercise requiring a lot of work, and vocal tone hits them the same way. When we started communicating online in what I can only call a memetic dialect, we started conveying concrete, text-proven emotional context in our conversations. This must have been a relief for anyone who has difficulties reading facial expressions and vocal tones, since people can lie about what’s going on behind their face but an established cultural foundation at least pins down what their conversational partner or partners meant to convey. Also consider: when this memetic dialect came into use in face-to-face conversation, it gave a solid emotional context to certain words that can be referenced outside of the forum-and-text-chat medium. In short - words and phrases mean things and, once that meaning has been established, it carries over into whatever mode of conversation is in use.

The fact that we as a culture created a memetic dialect to effectively communicate emotional context via a medium entirely stripped of the standard emotional cues is incredible, and I honestly believe that anyone who takes issue with “same” or “mood” used in text conversation (or even verbally, since the thing about memetic anything is that it spreads; that’s the point of a meme) should probably be obliged to analyse their own speech for useless words. At least that might help make the point that everyone uses filler words or aizuchi, but modern forms of it actually make sense not only in terms of adapting to suit a medium, but also adapting to be equitable to those who may have issues with emotional context in other sources.

I can see how it might still be objectionable to use a tonally mismatched aizuchi-word in a serious conversation, but it does in fact serve a purpose to say something like “yeah” every few lines so the other person knows you haven’t just gone out to weed your garden and left them hanging. Or like, literally had your internet cut out.

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hrefnatheravenqueen:

wastelandmae:

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agingwunderkind:

reverseweeb:

there’s a sleep “disorder” that is literally just “your circadian rhythm is inconvenient for school/work” and people with it have to take meds to make themselves sleepy earlier/later 

otherwise there’s absolutely nothing wrong with their quality/amount of sleep they just don’t have a schedule that works for society

shout out to second shifters - i traded prime time for good sleep

OP, the thing you’re describing is “delayed sleep phase disorder”. I have it. It fucking sucks. It makes having a functional life nigh-impossible because I’m out of sync with most of society. I can take sleeping pills (Zolpidem), but the moment I discontinue their use, my clock goes right back to “normal”.

Also, it’s likely genetic; it runs in my family, and one of my kids likely has it too.

I mean, yes, it fucking sucks, but that sucking is greatly increased because society is strictly set up for ‘normal’ sleep patterns.

Definitely. When allowed to live according to our rythm, we’re perfectly fine. If we lived in a true 24-hours society where we had access to the same services as everybody else at our normal hours, we’d have no issues.

What I’m saying is we NightFolks need to come together and found our own Night City where our condition will be the norm.

The DayFolks will call us vampires or something, but I’d take it as a compliment.

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ancient enemy

guess who is unbelievably excited for the breath of the wild sequel!!!

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Ill Gotten Gains~

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